02-21-2022, 11:16 AM,
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2022, 11:19 AM by Rob Wick.)
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
I'm officially out of clues so I'm going to call this. The answer is that both wrote about John D. Rockefeller in a controversial way. Tarbell, of course, wrote the Standard Oil series, but Sandburg wrote about the 1910 UMW strike in Colorado. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, which was owned by Rockefeller, was the site of what came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre. Sandburg wrote in 1915 in the Chicago Daybook that Rockefeller had hired Ivy Lee, whom Sandburg referred to as "a paid liar" as a public relations expert. I heard this while listening to Ron Chernow's biography of Rockefeller.
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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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04-17-2022, 11:20 PM,
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GustD45
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Was it William Herndon?
They have killed Papa dead
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04-19-2022, 05:15 AM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry it took me a while to get back here, but I decided to take a side trip to the hospital yesterday. I passed out at work. The doctors aren't sure why, but they ruled out my heart and kidneys. My blood pressure was low during the time I was there, but they couldn't say why. All in all, as W.C. Fields once said, I'd rather have been in Philadelphia.
But Steve got it. I got a bunch of letters from my researcher from the Library of Congress from the William Allen White collection, and in one of the letters from Sandburg to White, he mentions his dislike of Beveridge's book. Good job Steve.
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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A Sandburg Stumper
